Oh, by the way

What she says in public isn't necessarily what she says to a commission, and no effing wonder she refuses to say anything under oath.

A member of the 9/11 commission said yesterday that national security adviser Condoleezza Rice indicated in a private session she was wrong to have once stated no one expected terrorists to use planes as missiles.

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And it's not just her.

The White House reportedly also backpedaled yesterday on whether President Bush pressed counterterror czar Richard Clarke the day after the attacks to find evidence that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was involved.

Clarke said the meeting occurred in the White House Situation Room and presidential aides said earlier this week the meeting never happened. But CBS News reported last night that White House aides now concede the meeting "probably" occurred.

Probably.

Scream out the lies when the issues arise, and quietly correct them when fewer people are watching.

Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the 9/11 panel, said that during a closed door session Rice..."corrected [herself] in our private interview by saying, 'I could not anticipate that they would try to use an airplane as a missile,' but acknowledging that the intelligence community could anticipate it," Ben-Veniste said.

So, let me get this straight....she's head of the National Security Council, and she doesn't get the information that the intelligence community has?

We are totally, and probably irrevocably f#@ked. It's nothing new. It's just that now they don't even bother to be clever or covert. Because, apparently, we're either too stupid or too unconcerned with how our government actually works.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.